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“But goddammit, I don’t use ask as a noun.” Hallelujah! About 20-years-ago, Ken Smith published a series of books call “Junk English” (see [1]), which may be o
by avidphantasm 4y ago
“But goddammit, I don’t use ask as a noun.” Hallelujah!
About 20-years-ago, Ken Smith published a series of books call “Junk English” (see [1]), which may be of interest.
[1] https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8355222M/Junk_English https://openlibrary.org/books/OL8355222M/Junk_English
- dizhn 4y agoOne of my pet peeves but apparently it's not a new thing. https://www.dailywritingtips.com/is-ask-a-noun/ https://www.dailywritingtips.com/is-ask-a-noun/
- unholiness 4y agoHonestly "ask" as a noun, despite the hate, was one of the most useful corpwords they mentioned. If I say "what's the ask here?" I mean the concrete part. I mean the "request" just described (by a middle-man) was so fluffy in its language I couldn't figure out what actual action we need to take to make the asker happy. It's a common situation in a corporate world, and imo deserves its own word.